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In five pages the play's final scene and how its philosophical and theological issues reflect the society of ancient Greece. Ther...
this retaliation against his brother whom Polyneices felt had stolen the throne from him. Both brothers are killed in battle, one ...
father who controlled every aspect of her life. When she married bank employee Torvald Helmer, she was merely exchanging a father...
receive a proper burial, and she enlists the services of Ismene, her lone remaining sibling. She states her intentions plainly to...
the disease is the god Apollos punishment because the murder of the kings predecessor, Laius, has not been properly punished. He ...
In five pages this paper analyzed the family conflict experienced by father Creon and his son Haemon in Antigone and how it fits w...
you think, I should not have you, even if you asked to come...apparently the laws of the gods mean nothing to you" (Sophocles). ...
In seven pages this paper examines the life and works of Sophocles with the emphasis upon Antigone....
In five pages this paper discusses how Socrates' principles are presented in Plato's Protagoras and then provides a comparison wit...
the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...
he would take a dim view of Jason abandoning his duty to his wife and children in favor of selfish gain. The chorus would be the...
(Logia.com). "Unmoved by the dissuading counsel of an affectionate but timid sister, and unable to procure assistance, she determi...
Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...
This essay presens a scene analysis from the 2003 film "The Hulk," directed by Ang Lee. The writer describes the scene and summari...
of patriarchal privilege and set society against her is not sufficient justification for ignoring what she perceived to be a highe...
Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...
little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...
heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...
tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
that ambition as somehow more significant than the ambitions of others; the pursuit of his ambition crosses over the lines of othe...
left to be consumed by animals. Creon takes this action because he feels it is imperative to the safety of the state that the peop...
In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...